Legal Aspects of NFTs

by LCX Team

It’s difficult to understand how non-fungible tokens (NFTs) may be impacted legally now that you are producing, offering for sale, and purchasing NFTs. It typically takes some time for legislative bodies, judicial systems, and regulatory bodies to catch up to the rapid adoption of technology in any new application. In the meantime, we can anticipate how the law will be implemented based on how elements of the new technology and related technologies relate to established legal doctrine. Although no special legal theory has yet been established for NFTs, by examining the law’s application to cryptocurrencies, works of art, and collectibles more broadly, we might infer how the law may be applied to NFTs.

The following are frequently asked legal questions about non-fungible tokens.

No Intellectual Property Rights: Only because an NFT is created to represent an underlying piece of art does its author or owner not own the underlying intellectual property rights. To gain the right to duplicate the original work, NFT holders must secure a license for these underlying rights from the people who created it. Those with such rights may wish to grant a license while imposing various restrictions on how and by what means an NFT may be used.

What if you violate these terms? A NFT marketplace may reserve the right to deactivate your user account or an NFT “moment” from its application. They are not required to notify their users in advance.

Thus, the owner with all rights is a copyright holder who prohibits the unique NFTs from spreading, changing, publishing, and showcasing the work unless this owner transfers exclusive rights to another person. The purchaser of an NFT receives only the token and the ability to use the token’s copyrighted art for personal use. If a buyer thinks their rights have been violated or they’ve lost money, they may have to sue the person who sold them the non-fungible tokens on a number of different legal grounds.

Privacy and Data Protection Law: Data protection rules, especially the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, tend to give people the “right to be forgotten” and the ability to correct or even delete their data from both public and private businesses.

The immutability of blockchain technology may make this privilege impossible to exercise or difficult to apply for. As a result, non-fungible tokens containing personal data may violate data protection rules.

Money-laundering: Money-laundering As the value of NFTs rises, so do concerns that criminal actors will use them to avoid laws. Given that crypto provides decent privacy to both vendors and purchasers, bad actors might use NFTs to launder money more easily than traditional methods. NFT marketplaces must be mindful of such dangers and respond quickly in order to comply with the relevant legal framework.

Fraud Risk: Even though blockchain technology has features like data integrity, accessibility, and time-stamped ownership, fraud is still a risk across the market. This is because all of these features only matter once the data is encoded in the blockchain.

In principle, existing data cannot be faked, but any bad actor can incorporate false data into the blockchain. For example, they may manufacture a copy of an NFT that does not belong to them without the creator’s permission.

Before investing a large sum of money in an asset, more and more thorough studies about the NFT’s history and storage should always be conducted.

Aspects of Taxation: Can you make money using NFTs? The basic answer is yes. However, given the dangers and legal and tax issues, you must determine whether NFTs are worthwhile and have a future. As with cryptocurrencies, the law has been slow to catch up with the legal issues and taxation of NFTs. This makes it hard to figure out where NFTs fit into the tax system.

Although neither the bitcoin market nor the explosive growth of NFTs can keep up with the current legal framework. Any future legislation will have a significant impact on the future use of these types of digital assets, which are predicted to be employed more in everyday life, ranging from the Metaverse’s virtual existence to real-world uses.

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